About "The Myxomycetes Collection at the V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute, St. Petersburg"

The Collection

The Myxomycetes Collection at the V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute, St. Petersburg (LE) comprises more than 12,000 herbarium specimens with the oldest specimen collected in 1857. The first specimens from Russia date back in the 70th of the 19th century: Trichia varia (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Pers. from the European part collected in 1873 and Arcyria denudata (L.) Wettst. from the Asian part sampled in 1876. More than a third of the material was collected and determined by Y. K. Novozhilov (St. Petersburg). The collection covers around 400 taxa from about 40 countries, with the main geographic focus on Russia.